OT: More broadcast journalism

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/1/2010 09:53 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>This gives me the chance to bring the following possibly related
>nonlinguistic story to your attention.  WARNING: Do not read if you are
>offended by non-linguistic posts:
>
>http://www.livescience.com/culture/obama-anti-christ-100325.html

Quite logical.  The "Black Man" is the Devil.  Obama is "the" black
man.*  Therefore Obama is the Devil.

* Surely today he is more "the" than "a".

Joel

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